Saturday, November 10, 2012

Mon Oct 22, 2012Hello everybody!

Thank you for all of the birthday wishes, It's much appreciated. Inall honesty I forgot it was my birthday untill I was sitting atchurch. haha. We've just been so busy. I even gave a talk in Sacramentmeeting on my birthday! We didn't have time to go anywhere for abirthday dinner either. We'll hopefully find time this week though.I'm looking forward to Thursday when i'll get this birthday packagei've been hearing so much about. I laughed when I heard that mom waswearing her Manchester United jersey all day. She's not going to letyou all forget who her favorite child is. haha.

This week has been...interesting. A lot of very unique experiences. Iwent on an exchange at the beggining of the week In Chorley with ElderOsborn from Provo. Chorley is a bike area, one of the few in themission. There is a saying people always say that goes something like"It's like riding a bike. You never forget how to do it." Well... Ithink I came as close as you possibly can to forgetting. haha. Ialmost killed myself on the ride home from the Chapel. We walked therest of the exchange.(Embarassing) Let's hope I'm never in a BikeArea.

I also had a pretty funny experience on the exchange. We streetcontacted a young lady who didn't really want to talk to us. She said" I know who you are and what you believe". I said "OK, what do webelieve". She said "You believe that you came from some planet, youhave arranged marriages, and you're not allowed to eat chocolate." Ijust started laughing. I asked her where in the world she heard thatand she said that it was just "common knowledge". It's funny howmisinformed people can be.

We met another man the day after who was from Norway. He said that hewas full viking and he believed in the almight thor. He was walkinghis dog named wolf. He said that it was 3 quarters wolf, "so much wolfthat it should be illegal" haha. Then he started telling is about atime he was in a field with his dog and he got down on his hands andknees and yelled "Thor" then lightning starting striking all aroundhim. He said doesn't that mean that's an answer? Then he put his fistto his head and yelled "Thor!". You meet all sorts of people here.haha. It so much fun.

On a bit of a sad note. Elder Adair and watched a man die. no joke. Wegot of the bus at the bus station and one of the drivers was just onthe ground with a few people standing around him. A few seconds lateran ambulance game and the starting doing C.P.R. Then they used theshock pads. It went on for about 20 minutes. There was hundreds ofpeople just standing there watching. It was dead quiet. Then they juststopped and slowly loaded him into the ambulance and left. Thankgoodness for the Plan of Salvation.

Like I said, It was a very eventful week. A lot of unique experinces.I've been sick all week but i've been battling through it. I've gotgot an amazing streak of about 7 straight months of not having to stayin because of illness. I haven't been sick since my first few weels inStockport when I had the flu. I'm hoping the streak will continue myentire mission. We'll though.

The People we're teaching are doing great. Haydon came to church onSunday and really enjoyed it. His baptism is on November 17. The lastweekend of the transfer. The could possibly be two or three baptismson that day but we'll see what happens.

Thank you for all of the birthday wishes. It means a lot. I love youall so much! The Gospel and the Church are true! Talk to you nextweek!